Kyle is doing well. Had one of those "ho-hum" days (his first), and so not much to post from Ethiopia. Trips are much like life - there are good days, and days that aren't so good. He's doing well, and excited about Wednesday when he will meet with the director of Project Mercy and some government officials to talk about humanitarian work for orphans. Thanks for all the continuing prayers, and I'll post from him tomorrow.
So let's turn our attention to South America, shall we? My dearest friend in the world who I have known since baby days (as in, when WE were babies), is leaving on Wednesday, Oct. 31 for Pausa, Peru. Here is a little snippet of an email she sent out to supporters:
"God has led me to go to Peru on a mission trip this October 31-November 17th. I will be going with a retired missionary from our church and meeting up with two other people from a church in Florida. We will be working with local believers in evangelism and discipleship to start home Bible studies and establish house churches. There are no evangelical churches in the area and no services being held in the existing Catholic church building.
As explained to me thus far, my responsibilities will be to:
share my faith
explain the plan of salvation
prepare and teach Bible studies on topics such as “How to live a Christian life” and “How to study the Bible in order to teach it to someone else”,
be prepared to baptize new believers
and anything else the Spirit directs me to do while there.
I’m sure I will get to practice my Spanish but we will be assigned a translator.
I’m still trying to figure out the geography of it all, but the name of the town we are doing the work in is Pausa. It sounds a bit off the beaten path since we will fly to Lima, then fly another 4 hours to Arequipa, then drive another 5 hours to Atico where we stay the night before heading out on a 12 hour drive to Pausa the following morning. The people in the area are considered part of the Ayacucho People, a subgroup of the Quechua, and speak Spanish with Quechua."
This is quite an arduous trip, and I learned tonight that she thought she would have a translator, but as it turns out, the translator is depending on her for help with Spanish. She does speak Spanish, but she was counting on someone who spoke very, very fluent Spanish. So...she is trying to be flexible, and say, "whatever!"
After she makes this trip, she is going to take me back and we are going to climb Machu Picchu together. Right, Shan? Actually, we almost planned to do it at the tail end of her trip, but she decided (wisely) that she would be ready to get back to her two boys and husband after 18 days away. This sounds like a challenging trip, so if you get a chance to say a prayer for her, I would so appreciate it. She knows that God is leading her to do this, and that His hand has been on her throughout all the preparations, so I know that it will be a great 18 days. She will hate this photo I posted, but my prayer is that she will kick back, trust God, and continue that "whatever" attitude as she leans on Him.
Bon Voyage dear friend! My prayers go with you.
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